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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: user message limits
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:15:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901281215.16996.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233100868.30154.103.camel@homeserver>

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 07:01:08 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
> Even when I get a successful return value (from audit_log_user_message),
> I don't get my string back out in "ausearch" unless it is WAY smaller -
> ~1K or less I think.
>
> Any ideas/thoughts?

I tested like this:

auditctl -m `perl -e '{print "A"x"2048"}'`

and found its getting cutoff just under 1K. So, I checked the kernel code and 
found this:

 761                        if (msg_type != AUDIT_USER_TTY)
 762                                audit_log_format(ab, " msg='%.1024s'",
 763                                                 (char *)data);
 764                        else {

Offhand, I don't remember why the kernel sets the limit so low. It could be 
bumped some. How much, I don't know. 4K or 8K would seem fine.

-Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-28 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28  0:01 user message limits LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 15:30 ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 17:15 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2009-01-28 17:44   ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 20:14     ` Steve Grubb
2009-01-28 20:30       ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 21:04         ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-28 23:37         ` Casey Schaufler
2009-01-28 23:52           ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-29  0:36             ` Casey Schaufler
2009-01-29  6:57               ` James W. Hoeft
2009-01-30  4:49                 ` Casey Schaufler
2013-09-17 14:48     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-09-17 18:10       ` Steve Grubb
2013-09-18  2:25         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-09-18 14:25           ` Steve Grubb
2013-09-18 15:10             ` spurious \n in session id helper [was: Re: user message limits] Richard Guy Briggs
2009-06-08 22:08   ` user message limits LC Bruzenak

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